"Desktop icon patent … Well, Boss Chen, aren't we being too shameless?"
"Are we?"
Chen Yu asked, "I think it's pretty good. Brother Jian, what do you think?"
"I think it's pretty good too."
The two old guys looked at each other and smiled.
Huanyu Technologies was not a good company.
If they messed with Huanyu Technologies, they would at least lose a layer of skin.
The day after the media reported that Nokia and Huanyu Technologies had reached a settlement, Huanyu Technologies released another piece of breaking news.
Huanyu Technologies sued Nokia for patent infringement again.
When the news came out, the audience was dumbfounded.
"What, they're suing again?"
"Didn't they just settle?"
"Yes, they just settled."
"Huanyu Technologies won't go back on their word, right?"
"They won't. The main thing is that the content of their lawsuit this time is different from the previous one."
"How is it different? Isn't it still a patent infringement?"
"The patent is still a patent, but this time it's a desktop icon patent."
What was a desktop icon patent?
As the name implied, it was the design patent for some of the application icons on the desktop.
This was different from the previous design patent.
Previously, Huanyu Technologies sued Nokia for its design patent, but it was only the design of the phone.
This patent included the size of the exterior, the curvature of the four corners, the power button, the sound button, and the layout of the camera.
In other words, this was the appearance of the entire smartphone before it was turned on.
"Oh, oh, I understand. This is just like the Microsoft desktop icon and the Apple desktop icon."
"Yes, the Microsoft Windows desktop icon is different from the Apple desktop icon. If it's the same, it's definitely a patent infringement."
"Tsk tsk, interesting. I didn't expect there to be such a patent."
When the audience understood this, they were overjoyed.
On the surface, it seemed that Nokia had indeed infringed on Huanyu Technologies' desktop icon patent.
But in fact, Huanyu Technologies was playing with Nokia.
Just like the previous settlement.
Okay, I'll settle with you.
But the settlement was only for one of the patents.
The day after the settlement, I'll sue you again.
"I didn't expect it to work like this. Brilliant, really brilliant."
"I suddenly realized that Huanyu Technologies is too cowardly."
"That's right. Huanyu Technologies has a lot of dirty tricks. You don't know how Huanyu Technologies rose to prominence back then."
"I don't care about that. However, Huanyu Technologies is playing dirty tricks on Nokia. All I can say is, well done. "
"I wonder how Nokia will react when they find out that Huanyu Technologies is suing them again?"
"Pfft … Don't say anymore. I can't hold it in any longer."
Such a coquettish action simply made everyone laugh until their stomachs hurt.
At the same time, Nokia was also stunned by this.
Especially Su Li.
He thought that Huanyu Technologies was joking.
He even called Chen Yu.
"Boss Chen, what is the meaning of this?"
"This, this is not my intention."
"Boss Chen, you don't have to be so shameless. We just paid you 100 million USD."
"That's that. You did infringe on the desktop icon patent."
"Why didn't you say that there were other patents?"
"You didn't ask."
Chen Yu said seriously, "Mr. Su Li, let's be reasonable. We infringed on one of your patents and Nokia's other patents. Don't you want us to compensate?"
This was obviously impossible.
"Bastard."
Su Li cursed angrily.
"Mr. Su Li, actually, this matter can be resolved."
"Oh, what do you mean?"
"What I mean is, if Nokia is sincere, we can still settle."
"Sincere my ass …"
At this moment, Su Li had already hung up the phone.
He had already suffered once at Chen Yu's hands. How could he suffer a second time?
How could he not know that after this incident, even if Nokia and Nokia were to reconcile, they would still create another patent for Nokia in a few days.
Yes.
This was necessary.
Huanyu Technologies's Super Pear would not allow other mobile phone manufacturers to copy it.
When Chen Yu was developing the Super Pear, he had already registered a series of patents.
As for why he did not mention it before …
Of course, he did not mention it.
But when you infringe on my patents, sorry, I won't be nice to you.
Of course.
These patents were not only used to deal with Nokia, but they could also be used to deal with other mobile phone manufacturers.
Samsung, Sony, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson …
These global mobile phone manufacturers were the same as Nokia. Recently, they had been frantically trying to catch up with their progress.
Chen Yu had also received news that Samsung and Sony might launch their own smartphones in the near future.
This move would not only give Nokia a warning, but it would also deter other mobile phone manufacturers who wanted to launch new phones.
"Find out how many patents Huanyu Technologies has applied for."
At Samsung's headquarters, Lee Jae-yong gave an order.
According to the original plan, they were going to launch Samsung smartphones.
But when Nokia was messed with by Huanyu Technologies, Lee Jae-yong immediately stopped Samsung.
He had no choice.
If Samsung launched their phones into the market, they would end up like Nokia.
He started searching.
Soon, he found all the patents that Huanyu Technologies had applied for.
Huanyu Technologies had applied for more than 1,000 patents related to the Super Pear, and more than 500 of them were approved.
Among these 500 patents, more than 300 of them were related to technology, and the rest of the patents were related to design.
Technology patents aside, ordinary people would not understand them.
But design patents were easy to create hype.
For example, mobile phone design patents, desktop icon design patents, slide unlock design patents … etc.
Looking at these patents, Lee Jae-yong had a headache.
From these patents, it could be said that their Samsung phones had to be completely redesigned.
Of course.
Redesigning was actually not a difficult task. Samsung had plenty of design experts.
But redesigning was not only a matter of design, it was also a matter of time.
They were already three and a half months behind Huanyu Technologies.
If they had to redesign, reprocess, and then put it on the shelves … it would take another three months.
Electronic products had to be updated every two months.
Three months plus three months, that would be half a year.
Originally, they could still catch up with Huanyu Technologies.
If they wasted half a year, they would be crushed by Huanyu Technologies.
"What I want to ask is, why didn't you find these patents before this?"
"Boss Lee, the main reason is that we didn't expect them to apply for so many patents. Also, we also investigated the patents that Huanyu Technologies applied for. At that time, they did not apply for these patents. "
"Could it be that these patents were recently approved?"
"No."
"Then why didn't you find them?"
"Boss Lee, it's like this. Huanyu Technologies set up an outsourcing patent company. This patent company holds the patents, and then fully licenses them to Huanyu Technologies. So, on the surface, we can't find any patent application data related to Huanyu Technologies. "
"This bastard …"
At this moment, Lee Jae-yong was speechless by Huanyu Technologies' dirty tricks.
(End of chapter)
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